Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro likely didn’t have to give much of a pitch to Warner Bros. and CBS to get Young Sheldon, their new Big Bang Theory spin-off, off the ground. The words “Big Bang Theory spin-off” probably did the trick just fine. As the...

Part of me thinks he is treating fans of The Big Bang Theory with little in the way of appreciation for the fact many will feel a sense of kinship with Young Sheldon as much as with the adult nerds of BBT.

He pretty much says they are too stupid to enjoy anything other than BBT. I don’t think he has a very firm grasp on the people he’s talking about.

As finance chief of Netflix, David Wells can occasionally be counted on to sound a note of fiscal discipline at a company where CEO Reed Hastings is unafraid to bet big. But even as he preaches man…

The estimates on the cost of content that emerged from these interviews peg the typical range of the production budget for high-end cable and streaming dramas at $5 million-$7 million an hour, while single-camera half hours on broadcast and cable run from $1.5 million to more than $3 million. With the exception of HBO, which made its mark with lavish productions, that’s a significant increase, during just the past five years, over what had been $3 million-$4 million for cable dramas and around $1 million-$1.5 million for single-camera half hours.

It’s not just the cost of scripted TV that’s blowing up. Apple is paying $2 million an episode for the CBS-produced “Carpool Karaoke” series, even for episodes that run far less than 30 minutes.

Cable networks are stretching their wallets too. HBO’s VFX-heavy “Westworld” is in the same lofty budgetary stratum as “The Crown.” Season one of Starz’s “American Gods” came in at more than $8 million per episode. TNT’s one-and-done period drama “Will” required $5 million-$6 million an episode, even though it was shot in Wales with mostly up-and-coming actors.

In 2016, Apple Music announced that it would distribute a TV series, based on Corden's segment, called Carpool Karaoke: The Series. The series premiered on August 9, 2017, with new episodes each Wednesday, available to Apple Music subscribers.

One of the Sense8 actors shared a picture of the script for the special on Instagram, and it’s co-written by David Mitchell (the novelist, not the comedian, I assume) and Aleksandar Hemon, another novelist. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZg6WKbgCQQ/

Who on earth thought $2 mill an episode for Carpool Karaoke was a reasonable price?

James Corden and his accountant.

It is a bit nuts, the idea was a good one, it actually originates from a sketch he did for Comic Relief rather than his talk show, and has gone viral on social media.

It’s one of many signs that value is separated from potential. Apple see huge interest but does that convert into subscribers? Probably not, it’s a fun segment for free on Youtube. There’s a bubble in TV now with people trying to stake their places, it will contract.

One of the Sense8 actors shared a picture of the script for the special on Instagram, and it’s co-written by David Mitchell (the novelist, not the comedian, I assume) and Aleksandar Hemon, another novelist.

Mitchell and Hermon both wrote for series 2 (they were credited as consultants), and they cameoed in the show - they’re the writers who give a talk in San Francisco that Amanita goes to.